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1600 G. Powel Resolued Christian ii. i. 154 It is not a doctrine onely traditionally deliuered from people to people, but also bred and brought vp with euery of them in their owne selues.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. xviii. 381 If that were true which is traditionally related by Strabo. View more context for this quotation

1702 J. Lead Living Funeral Testimony 19 It has been traditionally set afoot in the World..that there are but two Receptacles for departed Souls.

1764 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. in Lett. (1772) I. 211 The common law, which was traditionally delivered to them from their ancestors.

1859 C. Barker Devel. Associative Princ. ii. 37 In an age..when private revenge was traditionally, if not legally, sanctioned.

1901 Athenæum 10 Aug. 198/1 The..effigy..of the maid of Normanton who was traditionally eaten by earwigs.

1962 J. R. R. Tolkien Let. 1 Aug. (1981) 319 That links the swan (traditionally the property of the King) with the fisher-bird.

2002 New Internationalist May 36/3 Nomadic Kyrgyz women traditionally had more freedom and influence than their sedentary sisters.

1900 Irish Eccl. Rec. Aug. 140 I am going to speak to you on the special charm Irish melodies possess when they are rendered ‘traditionally’, that is to say, in the way that is handed down from mother to child, from one peasant singer to his younger companion.

1913 Amer. Printer May 352/2 The older school of artists which paints traditionally and historically.

1975 Motor Boating & Sailing Sept. 101/1 My 27-foot dory cruiser was very traditionally built of pine over oak frames.

1985 Orange Coast Mag. Dec. 269/2 I've been staying with Japanese women who live very traditionally, all sleeping on the floor with little mattresses they roll up during the day.

2005 M. Ruhlman & B. Polcyn Charcuterie iv. 124 This sausage is particularly good gently grilled... Serve it traditionally, as a sandwich or sliced with mustard.